Do you think Satan has been locked up for the past 2,000 years?

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Do you think Satan has been locked up for the past 2,000 years?

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Houly

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#23
I don't know a single amillennialist that says satan has no influence on the world today. It's obvious many don't understand this particular belief which is why people disagree with it.
How can they be amillennialist but believe Satan still deceives the world today? Revelation makes very clear where Satan is for the thousand years.
 

Elizabeth619

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How can they be amillennialist but believe Satan still deceives the world today? Revelation makes very clear where Satan is for the thousand years.
When satan deceives the nations what do you think he is actually doing?
 

phil36

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Im amillenialist, in fact it is a view very widely held. Although not on the popular level just to fictio books and films which seem to have grabbed peoples imaginations rather than what scripture says.

How can you plunder a strong mans house without first binding him?
 
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Houly

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When satan deceives the nations what do you think he is actually doing?
I'm premillennialist. I believe in a future millennium in which Satan is locked up in the Abyss and cannot deceive mankind, exactly as Revelation says.

How can they (amillennialists) agree that Satan still deceives the earth today but also consider the thousand years figurative for the past 2,000 years? Satan cannot deceive mankind during the thousand years.
 

john832

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When satan deceives the nations what do you think he is actually doing?
He is promulgating anything and everything that clouds the truth of God. He is NOT a one tirck pony.
 

Bookends

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btw, I can't answer the poll, because I don't agree with the wording of the question. Is Satan locked up to the point where he can't do anything? No. Is he restrained in that he is powerless against the gospel and the Christian, Yes. And that's exactly want bound means, one who is restrained.
 

Elizabeth619

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I'm premillennialist. I believe in a future millennium in which Satan is locked up in the Abyss and cannot deceive mankind, exactly as Revelation says.

How can they (amillennialists) agree that Satan still deceives the earth today but also consider the thousand years figurative for the past 2,000 years? Satan cannot deceive mankind during the thousand years.
Could you please answer my question?
 
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Houly

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#30
Could you please answer my question?
How Satan deceives people? By leading them away from the law of God. And he does that today. During the thousand years, he will not.
 
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Houly

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btw, I can't answer the poll, because I don't agree with the wording of the question. Is Satan locked up to the point where he can't do anything? No. Is he restrained in that he is powerless against the gospel and the Christian, Yes. And that's exactly want bound means, one who is restrained.
"Locked up" as in: He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended.

Has that happened?
 

Bookends

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I'm premillennialist. I believe in a future millennium in which Satan is locked up in the Abyss and cannot deceive mankind, exactly as Revelation says.

How can they (amillennialists) agree that Satan still deceives the earth today but also consider the thousand years figurative for the past 2,000 years? Satan cannot deceive mankind during the thousand years.
Psalm 50:10
Holman Christian Standard Bible
for every animal of the forest is Mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

How can you believe that God only owns a thousand hills?

and

Deuteronomy 7:9
[SUP]9 [/SUP]“Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

What's a generation? 40 yrs? 51 yrs? I'll be gracious to you, I'll give you 15 years...15 x 1000 is 15,000yrs...Your secret coming of Christ is a long way off buddy.
 
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Widdekind

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#34
Satan began to be bound by Jesus' earthly ministry to Crucifixion...

the sowing of the Gospel progressively bound Satan, who became bound, when the western world converted to Christ under Constantine in the 4th century AD...

then the Prophesied 1000 years occurred = Christian Empire of Christian Roman/Byzantine Empire

Satan is un-bound today, because today is >500 years into the END TIMES, leading up to Rev 20:9+

the (Christian) Millennium ended, with the conquest of the Capitol of Christendom = Constantinople in 1453 AD, nearly 600 years ago

people are DECEIVED today because "Satan" is at work amidst their minds

the Book of Revelation "shot called" human history 2000 years ago...

and the "Babe Ruth pointing to the bleachers" Author thereof, "shot called" completely correctly...

human history has been thralled, to the "Scriptural Schedule" of Revelation, for 2000 years

today = Rev 20:7-9a = End Times
 

Bookends

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"Locked up" as in: He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended.

Has that happened?
He has been kept from deceiving the nations, The gospel has gone out and is still going it...He is not locked up in hell, but he is bound.
 

WomanLovesTX

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#36
And the fulfillment of the day of Atonement wasn't Christ crucified?
No, the day of Atonement is Tishri 10 (the 7th month). Jesus was crucified at Passover on Nisan 14 (1st month of God's calendar year). Jesus did fulfill 100% the Spring Feast of Yahwey and Jesus will fulfill 100% the Fall Feast. See Leviticus 23.

Lev 23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. (God's feasts ... ie not feast of just the Jewish people)
 
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Houly

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#37
He has been kept from deceiving the nations, The gospel has gone out and is still going it...He is not locked up in hell, but he is bound.
During the thousand years, he is locked up in the Abyss.

He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended.
 
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Houly

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#38
The question for the poll should have been: Do you think Satan has been locked up in the Abyss for the past 2,000 years?

I thought the first post would make it obvious that I was asking if Revelation 20:1-3 has been fulfilled.
 

phil36

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#39
So Houly, do you red revelation literally.. that this was a literal chain, and literal abyss? and a literal 1000 years (bear in mind if this one thousand years is so important to a literal 1000 year reign, why only mentioned once?
 
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RachelBibleStudent

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revelation is very specific about what satan is bound from doing...

revelation 20:2-3..."And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time."

satan is bound from deceiving the nations...and we can see that today there is not a single nation that is 'immune' to the gospel message...satan is unable to deprive entire nations of faith in christ...